Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure

At Esper, we’re on a mission to empower dynamic and responsive policymaking in government.

We’re building the platform that connects existing data, stakeholders, and public policy goals into a single dynamic system, transforming bureaucracy into infrastructure that encourages innovation and collaboration.

As a fast-growing GovTech company, Esper is at the intersection of two powerful forces: the modernization of government operations and the transformative potential of data-driven decision-making.

Our customer base is expanding rapidly, and we’re building the team that will define how public policy is shaped for decades to come.

Esper is looking for an experienced Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure to join our team and serve as the technical owner of our cloud infrastructure and platform security posture.

This is a senior individual contributor role without direct reports, working alongside one other infrastructure engineer.

Because Esper's customers include state, local, and federal government agencies, the security and compliance posture of our platform is central to the business.

As a senior member of the engineering team, you'll make a direct impact through:

• Owning the design, operation, and reliability of Esper's cloud infrastructure, including networking, compute, data stores, release and deployment, and observability
• Setting infrastructure technical direction and roadmap in partnership with engineering leadership
• Contributing to the development of core software systems used by all of engineering that bridge the gap between product development and infrastructure
• Enabling developers to easily integrate with infrastructure systems and adhere to security and reliability best practices in a consistent, low friction manner through the development of software libraries, services, and tooling
• Developing tooling and automation that enables measurable improvements to developer efficiency
• Leading incident response and reliability efforts, including investigations, postmortems, and follow-up remediation work
• Implementing, monitoring, and improving the technical controls supporting Esper's SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 obligations, including access management, audit logging, encryption, vulnerability management, configuration hardening, and change management
• Serving as the engineering lead for audits and assessments, including evidence collection and automation, auditor coordination, and remediation of findings